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Lok Sabha passes Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill to boost foreign investment, electronics manufacturing

The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which seeks to attract foreign investment, promote domestic manufacturing, provide greater…

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When is your home loan EMI increasing? RBI rate hike calls pushed back after dovish pause

MUMBAI: India’s central bank will likely begin hiking rates in December or ​later as core inflation in the ​economy remains low, four economists said on…

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a conference in Mountain View, California. (Reuters)
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Inside Google’s AI reset: How Pichai is redrawing the map & shifting its centre of gravity back to California

Alphabet’s Google on Wednesday announced the largest overhaul of its artificial intelligence leadership since 2023, with Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis stepping back from day-to-day charge…

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A rebound in the Indian rupee since June has further strengthened the RBI’s case for patience. (File Photo/ REUTERS)
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The RBI is emerging as an Asian rate outlier. Five charts show why

India’s central bank is emerging as one of Asia’s monetary policy holdouts, confident the latest oil shock won’t derail economic growth or fuel the kind…

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The ONMO+ console is priced at  ₹4,999 and can run titles including Cricket 26 and Cyberpunk 2077. (Vishal Mathur | HT picture)
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ONMO+ is a little gaming console with big ambitions, and genuine potential

If you see this game console as just another casual gaming avenue, you’d be wrong. There is a certain sense of gravitas to the ONMO+…

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India’s big billion-dollar trade deals are done. Now comes the real test

India spent years negotiating preferential access to some of the world’s largest markets. It has since signed trade agreements with several key trading partners, while…

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Anupam Kumar and Arvind Bhardwaj working on the extraction process; (right) extracted minerals from a battery. (Official photos)
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Zero waste, 99% purity: MiniMines pulls critical minerals from dead batteries

When Anupam Kumar, co-founder and CEO of clean tech company MiniMines, talks about sustainable and efficient battery recycling to extract lithium, cobalt, manganese, and nickel…

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Meet Sanjay Ghemawat, cofounder of AI startup Discovery Loop
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Meet Sanjay Ghemawat, cofounder of AI startup Discovery Loop

Computer scientist Sanjay Ghemawat is among the co-founders of Discovery Loop, the artificial intelligence startup launched by longtime Google executives Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals and…

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India-Sri Lanka focus on infrastructure projects; updating FTA to boost Comprehensive Partnership

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and top leaders in Colombo on Wednesday and both sides reviewed infrastructure projects,…

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Consumers can buy what they want without compromising their financial health. Learn how small monthly investments can yield big returns while avoiding the trap of consumer debt.
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Earn Interest or Pay Interest? A Smarter Way to Buy a ₹1 Lakh Phone

A ₹1 lakh smartphone is no longer sold as a ₹1 lakh purchase. It is sold as an EMI of ₹8,000 or ₹9,000 a month….

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